Laurie Kahn-Leavitt，Director/Producer Laurie Kahn's first film, A Midwife's Tale, was based on the 18th century diary of midwife Martha Ballard and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard. It won film festival awards and a national EMMY for Outstanding Non-Fiction.